Is a New Jim Crow Emerging in India? Ashutosh Varshney Gives a Warning

01/02/24 • 42 min

That's the point here. It's not there yet. But if electorally the BJP keeps winning, this is a prospect that must be faced.

Ashutosh Varshney
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Ashutosh Varshney is the Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences at Brown University. He is the author of many books and papers on India and its politics. His most recent article (coauthored with Connor Staggs), published in Journal of Democracy, is "Hindu Nationalism and the New Jim Crow."

Key Highlights

Introduction - 1:31
Hindu Nationalism - 3:48
Jim Crow and India - 12:08
Vigilantism - 23:53
Solutions - 34:46

Key Links
"Hindu Nationalism and the New Jim Crow" by Ashutosh Varshney and Connor Staggs in Journal of Democracy
"India’s Democracy at 70: Growth, Inequality, and Nationalism" by Ashutosh Varshney in Journal of Democracy
Follow Ashutosh Varshney on X @ProfVarshney
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Ashutosh Varshney on India. Democracy in Hard Places
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01/02/24 • 42 min

Democracy Paradox - Is a New Jim Crow Emerging in India? Ashutosh Varshney Gives a Warning

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Jim Crow is among the most disturbing legacies of the United States. It segregated Americans on the basis of race and used the law alongside social norms to impose an extreme form of social control upon the black population. What makes Jim Crow challenging to comprehend is it represents an illiberal authoritarian method of governance within otherwise democratic institutions and traditions. It’s easier for us to imagine authoritarianism under a dictatorship. It’s harder to explain how it ha

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